Those who are sick with famine. — Literally, with an even more terrible force, as summing all individual sufferings in one collect…

So God told Jeremiah that he could go and tell the people that he would weep continually for them. The faithful and sympathetic prophet was allowed…

He confirms the same thing in other words, not because what he had said was obscure, but because he knew that he was speaking to the deaf, or that …

If I go forth into the field
Without the city, where was the camp of the enemy besieging it then behold …

Jeremiah acknowledged his own sins, and those of the people, but pleaded with the Lord to remember his covenant. In their distress none of the idol…

1. Here, he takes up his argument from the predictions of the prophets.